In the era when artillery was still in the era of smoothbore guns, the basis for whether the sail battleship was resistant to beating and could fight was nothing more than the size and number of guns, if the Han Empire wanted to have its own position in the ocean in this era, it must need to develop large-scale sail battleships, and the Han Empire would definitely not be able to catch up with the other party in terms of quantity, only from the quality!

The Han Empire only built a first-class sail battleship and a faster frigate, one is responsible for head-on confrontation and the other is responsible for rapid interception and pursuit, not that Zhao Dutian does not want to continue to build more warships, but the construction of more than ten sail battleships has reached the limit of the empire's finances!

Even so, two years later, the first-class sail battleship of more than 3,000 tons may not be put into use, because the more than 110 heavy guns on it cannot be budgeted for with the current imperial finances......

The sail battleship itself is expensive, and the heavy guns placed on it are far larger and more expensive than the army field guns!

At present, there are only more than 100 artillery pieces on land in the Han Empire, including shore defense guns, and more than 100 guns on a first-class sail battleship......

Fortunately, the naval battle in the port of Eureka captured three Spanish gunboats, about the size of the fourth-class frigates of the Han Empire, and the navy was not reduced because of that battle......

Not long after the Han Empire swallowed up the land equivalent to the size of three or four states in the United States in Zhao Dutian's previous life, and the navy took control of the safety of its own coastline, George Macartney brought a piece of news that made Zhao Dutian very unhappy!

In the autumn of the 11th year of the Han Dynasty, the Franco-Spanish alliance in the European battlefield and the army led by the British Empire and the Kingdom of Austria officially ceased war!

The reason for the armistice turned out not to be the defeat of the French, but because the huge and greedy Tsarist Russia intended to intervene in the war caused by the Austrian succession!

After learning that Russian reinforcements were about to arrive in Austria, the French decided to negotiate peace, and they did not have an advantage on the battlefield, and they had fully seen the heroic British Empire of the French army and the queen of Austria, so naturally they would not oppose peace!

After many years of war, all European countries, with the exception of Tsarist Russia, have lost a lot of wealth and population, and neither side has the idea of continuing this war, in fact, the governments are close to financial collapse!

For those rulers, fighting a war is throwing money......

It's okay to be able to expand, but if the stalemate is consumed, no one wants to watch their country's finances collapse!

The two sides reached a treaty that they were not very happy with, and the Peace of Aachen was signed!

Zhao Dutian also obtained a copy of the Peace of Aachen from George Macartney. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Louisbourg of French North America (in the eastern part of Canada) and the nearby region of Nova Scotia were returned to France

Madras of French India ceded to the British

France ceded some of the border towns of the Netherlands to the Netherlands

Conditional recognition of the succession of the Holy Roman Emperor Franz I, Empress Maria Theresia and their descendants to the Habsburg estates

The Habsburg principalities of Parma, Piacenza and Guastara ceded to Prince Don Philippe of Spain

Restoration of the independence and borders of the Duchy of Modena and the Republic of Genoa

Reaffirmation of the pre-war agreement between Britain and Spain on the slave trade, reaffirmation of Britain's priority in the slave trade, and the obligation to transport slaves to the Spanish colonies

Prussia received the Duchy of Silesia and the State of Grazbe

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Zhao Dutian looked at the copy of the peace treaty and wondered: "Special envoy Georges Macartney, why is Louisiana and New France not dealt with here?" ”

"Oh, the French are not dead set on these places, so there is no specific treaty."

"Such a large land has not yet been established? Is this a truce? ”

George Macartney looked at Zhao Dutian with deep meaning and said: "This is the purpose of my coming to you, although the French have declared an armistice, the state of war between the Kingdom of Spain and your Han Empire has not ended."

The French are waiting, waiting for the outcome of the war between the Kingdom of Spain and you! ”

Zhao Dutian laughingly threw the copy of the peace treaty back on the table, and replied: "That king of France has a water in his brain, does he think that the current Spanish kingdom is still the same as the Spanish kingdom a hundred years ago?" ”

"Your Majesty, I didn't mean that, now even Philip V himself didn't think that the army of the American colonies could destroy the Han Empire, but there was a French foreign legion of about 10,000 people that had arrived in Mexico City, the new Spanish colony of the Kingdom of Spain!

I'm here to kindly remind His Majesty the Emperor that please pay attention to the Spanish troops on the front line in Los Angeles, the French will not be willing to lose so many colonies without trying! ”

Zhao Dutian frowned slightly, and asked: "Since the French want to fight the Han Empire, why do they want to stop the war and borrow the hands of the Spaniards?" ”

Georges Macartney spread his hands and said: "The king of France is almost a poor ghost, and supporting 10,000 people to fight in the Americas is already the limit of the current French government, and if there is more, the French king may not be able to pay the military salary." ”

Zhao Dutian really doesn't know this news, the secret service's infiltration of Europe can't reach the real high-level, what is the financial situation of European countries, it's difficult to find out, and the espionage operation in South America is controlled by the nationalists with huge underground forces, these nationalists are not stupid, they have always been vigilant against the dictatorship of the Han Empire, this time a French legion moved to Mexico, I'm afraid it was those nationalists who deliberately covered up the intelligence and didn't let the secret service notice!

It is not the European powers who want the Spanish Kingdom and the Han Empire to go to war the most, but these 'ground rats' living at the bottom of South America!

"Your Majesty the Emperor, please hurry up and get ready, the efficiency of the French is much stronger than the declining Spanish army, it won't be long before the combined forces of the French and the Spaniards should launch an attack, of course, the French government will not admit their participation, all this is an act of war between the Han Empire and the Kingdom of Spain!"

"The British government is not going to help? I don't need you to send troops to interfere, I just need to give some material support. Zhao Dutian took the opportunity to start asking for benefits.

It's a pity that the British Empire, which is completely aligned with its interests, will not trade at a loss!

Georges Macartney shook his head: "France is depleted of finances, why don't we in England?" A large part of the reason for the truce in the European theater is because governments have no money to continue fighting!

Not now, but if Your Majesty can hold out for more than two years, we in the UK will definitely give assistance! ”